Introduction
New data centre architectures are emerging in response to
new challenges
such as globalization, increasing costs, risk management and compliance. A recent iteration is
based on a shared, virtualized
infrastructure model. This architecture enables the
emerging enterprise and service provider
"cloud" models. While the
classical definition of cloud computing is defined by NIST and is well known by
IT practitioners, additional characteristics of cloud computing can be found
from Cisco’s white paper “Private Cloud Computing for Enterprises: Meet the
Demands of High Utilization and Rapid Change”.
Cloud computing is a vital technology in future IT industry. In order to allow students to understand the
definition and characteristics of this technology, this mini project is
devised.
This mini project will require
you to install and use the VMware vCloud Director. It is one of a famous application that
enables customers to build a private cloud–based Infrastructure-as–a-Service
(IaaS) offering within their organization. By providing a secure, on-demand
ability for end users to deploy workloads, companies can realize a level of
agility previously thought impossible.
Find
and download the VMware-vCloud-Director-51-Evaluation-Guide.pdf
from vmware.com. This VMware vCloud
Director 5.1 Evaluation Guide is designed to provide guided, hands-on
evaluation of the most compelling and relevant features of vCloud Director. It
walks through a series of procedures, each building upon the previous. It also helps to illustrate the key concepts
that should be understood before deploying a production cloud solution with
vCloud Director.
Proposed
Testing Environment
This
is a group project with 3 to 4 members.
Each group should use VMware workstation or VM Player. You can install ESXis as virtual hosts with
the VMware workstation. Then, you can
install ESXi virtual machines on top of these virtual hosts. A possible scenario is shown in the figure on
the next page. Three ESXis are created
on a VMware workstation. One of these
ESXi virtual hosts has more virtual memory and virtual HD space. It will be installed vCloud Director, vShield
Manager and vCentre. Other two ESXi
virtual hosts will be grouped as a cluster and will be managed by the vCloud
Director. You are required to create
virtual organization with the vCloud Director.
A staff in this virtual organization can use these two virtual hosts to
create guest VMs, such as a Linux OS or a Window OS. If you decide to use a local virtual HD in
these hosts to store the ISO image and the guest vm, you should prepare a
reasonable size for the virtual HD.
Alternatively, you may use the QNAP as a remote storage device. You may challenge yourself by connecting the
guest vm to the Internet, and demonstrate other advanced features.
All
Lab PC will use VmPlayer for the Nested Virtualization setup.
Deliverables
(1) A
Project Report (50%)
1.
A brief introduction to describe what you will do
in this mini project.
2.
A Connection diagram with port numbers and IP
addresses for all hosts, virtual machines, software installed in the hosts/VMs
and devices if there is any.
3.
Configuration logs with Screen captures.
4.
A test plan that you will do in the project
demonstration.
5.
A conclusion to summarize what you have done,
problems encountered, recommendation if there is any.
(2) Project
Demonstration (50%)
1.
Run VM inside.
2.
iSCSI
3.
Distributed vSwitch
4.
vMotion
5.
Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
6.
High Availability (HA)
7.
Fault Tolerance
8.
Any other advanced features. i.e. Clone ESXI
Rules:
2. You
will have Lab sessions time for the Project Set up, and Final Demo preparation.
3. You
have to demo and show your progress every Lab Session.
4. During
the Final Demo, you have to show all your features within 10-15 minutes.
Minimum requirements for the VMware vCenter Server
6.x Appliance
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Resource
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Requirement
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Disk storage on the host machine
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Embedded Platform Services Controller:
External Platform Services Controller:
External Platform Services Controller Appliance:
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Memory in the vCenter Server Appliance
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Platform Services Controller Only: 2GB Ram
All components on one Appliance.
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CPUs in the vCenter Server Appliance
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Platform Services Controller Only: 2 CPUs
All components on one Appliance.
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